J~une 10, 1937
Forest H. Lees	~idina County
		Dlatrict #~	tOt
C.	R. McLean, Supervisor	Pegs 2
	Topic~24Gi~Fo]:]cwaya

J~u1ia Wi11ian~, ex alave

had d~e bes clothes and. bee mea1~, anyting I want to eat. De ~s. liks ni. and she like rae and she say efren you want sompin ask foh it, any— time you want 8Oznpin or h&tf to haTe, get it. I didn sufter tor say— thin befob dim Yankees come.“

	“After de Yankees come ~en de hou8e people, de white peopis dldn get shoes. But I hab some ‚ I save. I have some othah shoes I dida dare go in de house with. Da had wood soles. Oh Lawde how da hurt mali feet. One day I conie down stair to° faa and slip an fall. ~ Right den I tile de Mrs. I coulà.n wear dem big heavy shoes and besides da makes meA fset so gore.“

	“Bot de i~rs • and de Master sickly. An the ir ohillun di ed. Da live in a big ~nshun house. ~o we had an overseer on de plantashun. De poor white people da live purty goode 8.11 dat I seed. It was a big p1antash~m. I can‘t rem~ber how big but I know dat it was sho big. Da had lots an lots of slaves but I dosa no zackly how many. Da scattered arrund de plentashun in diffren sattlemerits. De horn blew every mohnin to wake up de fiel hens. Da gone to fiel lone time foh I get up. De fie]. hans work from d4in till dark, but evabody had good eats on holi.. days e No work jus eat and have good time.“

“Da whiDp dem e2.~vss what run away.“

	“One day after de war ~as over and I come to Øhio ‚ a man atop at mali houseo I seem him and I know him too but I ~‚e~a like I dida, so I say ‚ ‚ I dosa want ter buy nothin tod‘ and he says ‘Dosa you know me?‘ Den I laugh an say aho I remember the day you wuz goin to whip me, you run affir me end I rua to de ~s. and she wouldu let you whip me.
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